Independence Day 2: Resurgence 🎥 2016 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In the twenty years after the War of 1996,[a] the United Nations has founded the Earth Space Defense, a global defense program using reverse-engineered alien technology and serves as Earth’s defense force against extraterrestrial threats. Civilization has been restored, and relative peace among nations exists following the human race’s victory over the aliens’ attacks. The ESD set up bases from Area 51 to the Moon, Mars, and Rhea, and orbital defense satellites above Earth, as fortifications against future invasions. ESD Director David Levinson meets with warlord Dikembe Umbutu and Dr. Catherine Marceaux in the African state République Nationale d’Umbutu.

They travel to a landed alien saucer and discover that the aliens were drilling before sending a distress signal to their homeworld before their defeat. It is revealed that people such as former U.S. President Thomas Whitmore, Dr. Brackish Okun, and Umbutu are telepathically linked to the aliens’ collective consciousness, following personal encounters, and have visions of an unidentified spherical object. An unidentified spherical ship emerges from a wormhole near Earth’s Moon. Despite objections from Levinson, the United Nations Security Council orders the ship to be destroyed. Defying orders, American pilots Jake Morrison and Charlie Miller then collect Levinson, Marceaux, Umbutu, and U.S. federal controller Floyd Rosenberg on a space tug.

They head for the wreckage in the Van de Graaff crater, where they recover a large container holding a sphere. An alien mothership, over 3,000 miles in diameter, suddenly appears after responding to the distress call, and proceeds to destroy much of Earth’s planetary defense systems before landing over the North Atlantic Ocean where it starts to drill down toward Earth’s core for fuel that will destroy the planet in the process. Narrowly escaping death, the space tug avoids capture and returns to Area 51. Whitmore, Levinson, and U.S. General Joshua Adams’s groups interrogate one of the aliens held in captivity at Area 51’s prison facility from the war.

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